Interesting, but I would rather see data on how it is being received than how it is presented.

https://www.cjr.org/tow_center/media-coverage-chatgpt.php

How the media is covering ChatGPT

… News reporting of new technologies often takes the pattern of a hype cycle, said Felix M. Simon, a doctoral researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute and Tow Center fellow. First, “It starts with a new technology which leads to all kinds of expectations and promises”. ChatGPT’s initial press release promised a chatbot that “interacts in a conversational way”. Next, media coverage branches into two extremes: “We have people say it’s the nearing apocalypse for industry XYZ or democracy,” or, alternatively, “it promises all kinds of utopias which will be brought about by the technology,” Simon said. Finally, after a few months, a more nuanced period of coverage—away from catastrophe or utopia—to discuss real-world impacts. “That’s when the cycle starts to cool off again.”

… Generative AI tools like ChatGPT, trained on immense amounts of data, are skilled at guessing the next word in a sentence sequence but don’t “think” in the ways humans do. “So it’s literally just walking down the line statistically, looking at the statistical distribution of words that have already been written in the text, and then adding one next word,” Diakopoulos said. More reporting should outline how these technologies actually work—and don’t.

“Legitimate interest” seems a bit vague… What if my product is a facial recognition system for police?

https://www.pogowasright.org/britain-to-crack-down-on-unauthorised-ai-data-collection/

Britain to Crack Down on Unauthorised AI Data Collection

Michael Edgar reports:

In the aftermath of Rishi Sunak’s sit down with leaders from Open-AI, DeepMind, and Google, Britain announces new measures to crack down on unauthorised gathering of personal data from Artificial Intelligence (AI) companies.

Companies utilising generative AI technology have been informed by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) that they remain bound by data protection laws in the UK.

Consequently, they are required to obtain consent or provide evidence of a legitimate interest when collecting personal information.

Read more at Digit News.